[Pekka]

The very next day was yet again Budleigh time and little less choppy but equally strong current was there to meet us, I was tired of our dive to Budleigh the day before but I pressed of to the reef. I was making sure I had my gun pointing to the imagined direction of the big bass at every aspetto.
First dive down I saw a shoal of Bass scatter away for me, and I knew I was about to get some dinner. Slowly I glided down and waited, as expected the fish came back to check me out, I waited long and patiently before nailing one of the swimming fish from the shoal. It was easy as anything. above all I was only half way across the reef. I kept diving and drifted across the reef to the spot where the bottom drops to about 10m and deeper. I did yet one more dive as I knew I was bit off the sweet spot, but I had seen some fish here before. My wait was rewarded by a four bass which slowly glided against the current to circle me from the left. I waited and picked the middle first fish, which looked rather fat and inviting. the spear hit the fish and left a line of small bubbles behind. I had waited for so long there was no chance for me to swim after the fish and I was still at -10m of water. I had to gently lift the fish hoping that I had nailed it well and the fish would not rip free. Sure enough I had put the spear very close to the spine and there was no real fear for losing the catch. I had gone pretty far out and it was time to swim back. I made my way slowly but surely back to the shore, this time awoiding the shallow water at the reef close to the shore, but circled the whole reef from the sea side and resting at the buoys on the way.

These fish were much bigger than the ones before and we had a feast big enough from them that us 5 at the dinner table could not finish the big fish. it must have been fairly heavy.. I didn’t have my scale with so can not be too sure how big it was..